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Pins on a Map : How Chicago students are tracking Ice raids

CHICAGO - The windowless newsroom of The Phoenix, the Loyola University Chicago newspaper, hums like an old refrigerator. A coffee pot burbles in the corner as juniors Julia Pentasuglio and Ella Daugherty lean over a glowing laptop, updating a Google map.Each red pin marks a sighting of federal immigration agents near campus and the surrounding neighborhoods.Nearby, editor-in-chief Lilli Malone scrolls through reports from Rogers Park, a neighborhood along Chicago s lakefront where 80 languages mix. There were new pins from seven sightings that day alone - reports of vans barreling down side streets, masked immigration officers drawing guns, students watching from on-campus dorm windows as neighbours were taken away.The young student journalists normally cover dorm-room Thanksgiving recipes and local Christmas tree lightings, but find themselves with a new role under Donald Trump s presidency: documenting immigration raids. Their goal: counter online rumour with facts and give locals a map of frequently targeted areas as panic spread in recent months over who might be picked up by immigration agents next.


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